In her first major move as governor since replacing the disgraced Andrew Cuomo in August, Kathy Hochul signed into a law a sweeping extension of a statewide eviction moratorium that had been set to expire.
The mood of the city is, in some sense, always retrospective. Once the cataclysm arrives, we have the uncomplicated dividing line of history, everything before and everything after. The sky was blue, many will recall; that day, the sky was a deep and heartfelt blue.
THE RECKONING FOR GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO arrived last week. Beset by sexual harassment and assault allegations exhaustively detailed in a report from the state attorney general, Cuomo announced his resignation on August 10, leaving office to avoid, like Richard Nixon, a devastating impeachment.
As Kathy Hochul prepares to become New York’s first female governor, many of the men and women who ran the Andrew Cuomo administration remain in positions of power.
Far removed from the bustle of New York City and its surrounding suburbs, the upstate city of Albany has always been a place where the state’s political class goes to quietly indulge.
Andrew Cuomo’s resignation marks the end of an era of political dominance we may never know again. Not since Nelson Rockefeller, the grandson of perhaps the richest man in history, has one governor so determined the affairs of New York.
Single-payer health care and a public takeover of utility companies. Money pumped into the public-university system and public-housing stock, harvested from higher taxes on the wealthy.
WHAT IS THE AMERICAN JEW? For the last seventy-three years, this has been a most vexed question, ever since a land was forcibly seized for the Jews to, at last, make their own.
Surviving in Andrew Cuomo’s orbit always required more than competence. Policy vision, ambition, and hustle would only get you so far. Young, hungry staffers are expendable, as are those who come from good schools and answer emails in a timely fashion.
On Tuesday, State Attorney General Letitia James released her much-anticipated report into the sexual harassment allegations brought against Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. James, a fellow Democrat, was unequivocal: Cuomo had harassed multiple women, including current and former government workers, breaking state and federal laws.